Gifts of Love will host its annual benefit - The Fire & Ice Gala - on Friday, Nov. 20th, at 6:30 p.m. at The Hartford Golf Club in West Hartford, CT. This year marks the 26th Gifts of Love Gala event, which raises funds to provide basic supplies, including food, clothes, furniture and housewares, for area families experiencing temporary financial crisis. This year's celebration will feature a "Night of Laughter" with headliners from the Gotham Comedy Club in New York. Harrison Greenbaum - Harrison began performing stand-up comedy while studying at Harvard. Now in Manhattan, Harrison is one of the most in-demand comedians in New York performing over 600 show annually. Harrison was featured on NBC's Last Comic Standing and AXS TV's Gotham Comedy Live. He has received many awards including the Andy Kaufman Award (2010) for creativity and originality, the Shorty Award for "Best Emerging Comic (2011) and the Magners Comic Stand-0ff (2011).

Erin Maguire - Erin is a NYC-based actress and stand-up comic with one mission in life - in her own words - to make people "laugh until you wet yourself". Originally hailing from Boston, Mass, she have entertained people across the nation and abroad with her unique style of situational comedy, characters, and crowd work. She has also been known to throw in some singing from time to time.

Dan LaMorte - Dan LaMorte is a 20-year-old NYC based comedian and comedy writer featured on FOX. He can often be seen performing at the New York Comedy Club, Stand Up NY, Caroline's on Broadway, and many others. Dan is also the producer of "Fight Club Comedy" a monthly comedy show at Durden Bar in Manhattan's Lower East Side. His writing has been featured on CNBC, Daily Meal, Absrd News and I Left Mars for This.

In addition to the comedy show. the Gala will feature an open bar, entertainment, hors d'euvres, a sit down dinner, dessert, silent and live auctions, lots of dancing an a lot of laughter. Tickets are $125 per person and available at www.GiftsofLoveCT.org/drives-events.

The Fire & Ice Gala in cooperation with Gold Sponsors, The Shoppes at Farmington Valley and Carmon Community Funeral homes, is Gifts of Love's major fundraising event for the year. A variety of local businesses have also provided support, including Silver sponsors Brescia's Printing, E.N.E. Realty Associates, Farmington Bank and Shein Cohen Palmer Certified Public Accounting.

GIFTS OF LOVE: The mission of Gifts of Love is to provide assistance to individuals and families experiencing a temporary financial crisis so they can achieve or maintain self-sufficiency. We accomplish this by providing basic needs-food, clothing, furniture, household items, heating assistance - and offering life-skill educational programs. Through the Community Farm of Simsbury's farm-based educational programs, we educate the community about food systems, hunger, sustainable farming, sound nutritional choices and healthy lifestyles.

CONTACT: Diana Goodedgoode@giftsoflovect.org860-676-2323

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